"Am I in earth, in heaven, or in hell?
Sleeping or waking? Mad or well advised?
Known unto these, and to myself disguised!" - The Comedy of Errors
Shakespeare knew which questions to ask. He also seems aware of his chief blind spot: himself.
"He that commends me to mine own content,
Commends me to the thing I cannot get.
I to the world am like a drop of water
That in the ocean seeks another drop.
Who falling there to find his fellow forth,
Unseen, inquisitive, confounds himself.
So I, to find a mother and a brother, in quest of them, unhappy, lose myself."
Because Shakespeare intuits the deepest truths, he at times channels the Perennial Philosophy in the course of his writings. I doubt he even knew it, as far as rational, conscious knowing, because he is intimating non-rational, unconscious wisdom here as intricate and profound as anything Wei Wu Wei might posit: "What we are looking for, trying to know, seeking to find, is what is looking, trying, seeking...but your conditioned objectivising bangs the door shut as soon as it opens."
Sleeping or waking? Mad or well advised?
Known unto these, and to myself disguised!" - The Comedy of Errors
Shakespeare knew which questions to ask. He also seems aware of his chief blind spot: himself.
"He that commends me to mine own content,
Commends me to the thing I cannot get.
I to the world am like a drop of water
That in the ocean seeks another drop.
Who falling there to find his fellow forth,
Unseen, inquisitive, confounds himself.
So I, to find a mother and a brother, in quest of them, unhappy, lose myself."
Because Shakespeare intuits the deepest truths, he at times channels the Perennial Philosophy in the course of his writings. I doubt he even knew it, as far as rational, conscious knowing, because he is intimating non-rational, unconscious wisdom here as intricate and profound as anything Wei Wu Wei might posit: "What we are looking for, trying to know, seeking to find, is what is looking, trying, seeking...but your conditioned objectivising bangs the door shut as soon as it opens."
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